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You know, he thought-
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This was when we were still at the
Monitor, when it was still political.

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He thought that journalists
should change things...

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you know, not just report.
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He wanted to be the referee
and not just the scorekeeper.

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I guess.
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When I was a press liaison
for Fred Loomis...

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we had a slogan
on the wall.

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It said, "You don't tell us
how to stage the news...

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and we won't tell you
how to report it"

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Terrific.
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Power is a locomotive, babe.
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You either hop on board,
or it runs right overyou.

:47:44
Sounds like he laid down
on the tracks.

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See ya.
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- Dinner at La Fonda?.
- Yeah.

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He was the love of my life.
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It rains like the dickens
in these mountains...

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butyou won't see any streams
running down them.

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So where does the water go?.
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Whatyou're looking at
is honeycombed with hundreds...

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maybe thousands of mine shafts.
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When you stop
pumping the water out...

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over time those holes
fill up top to bottom...

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till there's nowhere else
for it to go.

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A huge pressure builds up
looking for an outlet.

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In 1943...
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four miners broke a pick hole...
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in a wall to an adjacent area...
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that hadn't been worked
in 20 years.

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Water exploded
out ofthat wall...

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drove those four fellas
and their equipment...

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back through the shaft they'd dug,
out into the main tunnel...


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